The calendar tells me it is Spring 2023, but when I am still busy with three to four layers of clothes on, I do wonder if it will ever really arrive!
Now, my friends in Minnesota have been sending me pictures of piles of snow. Maybe I shouldn’t complain…
Really, it hasn’t been all that bad. I see my daffodils blooming out front from my office window. A beautiful mix I purchased last fall from a local dealer through an English website (crazy that I couldn’t just bike the 4 km last fall to pick these up in person and save delivery costs!). I digress..
My garden is greening up ever so slowly. I even have a small onion sprout peeking out of the straw bale. The brave little onion! I almost biked home to knit a small sweater for it to protect it from the cold biting wind.
As I was thinking of that poor onion and trying to get some work done for when the Spring season finally comes along, a huge gust of wind blew my electric bike over! Now, what escaped my mouth went straight to the universe that I was not pleased! I have had it! Now a damaged, new electric bike is sitting in our shed waiting for the bike repairman to return from vacation.
Change is never easy. Mother Nature also seems to be having a hard time with the changing of seasons.
How can I encourage her to move along?
“Hello Mother Nature! I am ready to shed my layers of clothes. I am ready to plant all those seeds from all those beautiful plants you have on this Earth. I am ready to let Father Sun burn my skin when I am tilling the soil. Please bring me Spring and not four seasons in 15 minutes.”
Not sure that she reads my blog, so maybe my readers can pass the message along in your own voices and she will bring us all some Spring normal weather.
Thanks in advance to all that help!😊
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Ah spring! It’s finally here, well, almost.
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CJ I feel your pain!
I don’t think we have had a single dry day all month, February we had no rain! When the temps have got to a reasonable level we had the wind and rain (did I mention the rain?).
The garden’s not looking too bad, flowers and buds all opening but no pollinators except for a few well furry bumblebees. Saw my first butterfly yesterday and one today trying to hide from the rain but the forecast is for colder weather again, oh and more rain 😣
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B- Thank you for your emotional backup on this one! I told someone recently that Mother Nature is acting like she is in menopause. That day we had sun, rain, wind, hail then back to sun and all over again in random order! Hopefully someone in the universe can provide her some support so we can experience less of this crazy stuff.
Seen bees here and butterflies in Feb. but now not much except the singing birds.
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My dearest Mother Nature, when you exit Minnesota Saturday morning with your latest gift of snow, please return with a basket overflowing with buds, daffodils, tulips and a whole lot of sunshine. And if you can toss in some crocus, I’d like that, too. Thank you.
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Great! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌱🌱🌱🌱🌳🌳🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
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Oh, well, you have it easy there – we woke up to six inches of very heavy, wet spring snow bending all the trees over this morning. An overnight blizzard left its mark on everything. Lost a few limbs from our white pines in the back yard. But I do understand wanting a little more warmth! Me, too.
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I know, I shouldn’t complain as it seems it has been a rough Spring for everyone, everywhere. Crazy these weather patterns and the amounts of moisture and energy they are packing. Maybe finally some smoother weather is in the forecast here…
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That would be nice!
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I’m so sorry about your bike! And I second your appeal to mother nature: it’s time for Spring, and warmer temps! (Plus, no more snow. Please.)
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We can try to make it a weekly mantra. I know that I was concerned about your bad weather as my son was driving in it the other day. So sad the amount od destruction in it’s pathway!
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Hmmm – did my comment about the heat here in Texas get through? It didn’t give me the “awaiting moderation” part that it usually does!
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Nope didn’t get here…
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We are experiencing the weather rollercoaster as well here – run one day in shorts and a t-shirt and then step outside for the next day’s run and I’m dashing back inside to layer up. Our Asian Lillies came out of the ground early this year and we are having to nurse them through the night freezes. A week ago we ran in waves of sleet. I figure this is about the last grip winter has and we’ll be embracing spring soon. Good luck on the garden and sorry to hear about the bike.
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